Monday, 28 September 2015

THE ACTION MAN RACING CAR

Picture: Oocities

We don't talk about Action Man much on this blog for some reason but he was a major part of my childhood. He was easilly as important to me as Major Matt Mason, if not moreso.

I had tons of Action Man stuff in the Sixties. One of my favourite vehicles was his green racing car seen here in a catalogue. I can see ol' Ach in his formula One togs and helmet zooming down the hall of our house, the longest straight run of floorspace we had.

A classic plastic toy and a big hardy one, so its strange that in all my 25 years of car boot sales I have never seen one for sale.

3 comments:

Don't think I've ever seen that racing car in real life (nor the go kart for that matter), either new at the time, or second-hand since. In the Vreede household, Action Man replaced Major Matt as well, since all our MMM figures ended up with broken wires which eventually severed limbs as well.

Also had lots of AM stuff, including a number of special items available through saving the stars on the packaging - not available outside the UK, but we had it delivered to a colleague of my Dad's at the London office (not unlike having US-only items on epay sent to a friend in California nowadays :)

Most of it survives, apart from the scuba suits which went brittle, and I haven't seen my replacement Scorpion tank in quite awhile come to think of it...

Nice thing about the tank was that it outclassed any modern AM vehicle that my sons' friends had, so it was very popular with two generations of Vreedes. :)

Sounds like you have a great collection still in the house Paul! That Scorpion Tank can't be too far away, its so big! The AM toy vehicle I see more than any at car boots sales is the Cherilea Armoured Car [did Palitoy do one?].

I do seem to recall an official AM armoured car pictured in the catalogues at the time (which I still have I think, but where...). What I never saw at the time but was surprised to see at swap meets later was an APC version of the Scorpion (called Saracen I think) a well as a fighter jet.

Losing sight of the tank may be innocuous, it could be in with the rest of the stuff in a (large) box somewhere. But it could also have befallen the sad fate of many other toys, in that a motherly hand decided to send it on its way... hope not.